IHS Inc News

A rapid string of merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions as 2018 passed into 2019 suggests the physical security industry may be on the verge of a busy year of companies buying other companies. Observers have noted a large amount of investment capital currently available to be invested in security M&A, and plenty of entrepreneurial companies are looking to be acquired.
Joe Grillo, CEO of ACRE, previously hinted at upcoming M&A activity for his company by the end of 2018, foreshad...

Video surveillance as a service (VSaaS) is not just for commercial organisations. Federal, state and local governments can also realise benefits from the technology—and use it to deliver an integrated video surveillance system that addresses some of their unique security needs.
Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS)
What is VSaaS? Simply stated, it’s a cloud-based video surveillance solution that is packaged and delivered as a service over the internet. The price varies depending...

Dahua 4K-HDCVI adopts 4K Ultra HD image acquisition and back-end DVR storage
HD analogue is quickly becoming the mainstream of analogue video. By 2018, over 90% of analogue cameras will be HD analogue (according to 2016 IHS report). Dahua led the industry to introduce HDCVI Technology in 2012, and continues to enhance the technology leadership by bringing state of the art performance in terms of resolution, light sensitivity, intelligence and usability to the HDCVI community....

The Milestone certification process ensured that integrators & end users of the surveillance systems which incorporate Vess A-Series NVRs & XProtect VMS can have confidence that the system will record & archive video reliably
Promise Technology announced that its Vess A2330 and Vess A3340 network video recorders (NVRs) have been certified by Milestone Systems for use with the whole range of XProtect video management software (VMS) products. Both the Vess A2330 and...

Agent Vi expects to use the invested funds to expand its engineering, sales and management teams
Kuang-Chi Science Limited, a member of the Kuang-Chi Group, has agreed to become a strategic investor in Agent Video Intelligence (Agent Vi), an Israeli video analytics company.
Global Community of Innovation
The investment, part of Kuang-Chi’s $300 million Global Community of Innovation (GCI) fund launched earlier this year, will expand the company’s portfolio of tec...

The amount of data generated by today’s video systems – whether resulting from increasing camera counts and/or higher resolutions such as 4K – is presenting new challenges when it comes to storing the data and making it instantly accessible to end users. The surge in data is opening the way in our market for new, more sophisticated IT systems to manage and store the data. In fact, the sheer volume of video data and increasing application demands make some legacy approaches obso...

Everything about wireless access control makes life easier for those who install and operate it
A lot of market data crosses my desk at ASSA ABLOY. Sometimes it can be hard to spot patterns or pick out the trends. But not always. Some recent access control market research we commissioned pointed in one direction.
Our conclusion? Slowly but surely, access control is becoming a wireless technology
As the global leader in door opening solutions, we are able to survey a large,...

The command and control room and PSAP market is expected to grow significantly over the next four years
The command and control room and public safety answering point (PSAP) market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.1 percent from $5.4 billion in 2015 to reach $7.6 billion in 2020, according to IHS Markit a provider of critical information, analytics and solutions. Major factors spurring market growth include national public safety initiatives like First...

Just 0.4 percent of fixed-broadband subscribers in the US purchased a residential alarm system from an MSO in 2015
Although multi-system operators (MSOs) have made significant inroads into the residential alarm market; they still have a long way to go before they can claim to have truly conquered the traditional security provider’s stranglehold on demand. In fact, according to Jim Dearing, IHS Technology’s analyst, residential security, just 0.4 percent of fixed-br...

The declining prices are contributing to more rapid adoption of multi-criteria detectors
The introduction of multi-criteria detectors has given purchasers increased flexibility and functionality in their fire detection systems. According to the latest IHS Fire Detection & Suppression Report, the global multi-criteria detectors market was worth $264.8 million in 2015. The market is expected to grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6 percent between 2015 to 2020....

IP-enabled panels will make up 58.2 percent of the market
The adoption of panels and other IP-based equipment in the Asia Pacific market has ramped up significantly in 2015, and growth is expected to accelerate from 2016 through 2020. In fact revenue from IP-enabled panels will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.8 percent from 2015 to 2020. The total market for access-control panels is expected to reach $499.3 million in 2020, and IP-enabled panels will make up...

Penetration in residential sector is expected to increase by double digits by 2020 due to new functions and better technology
The internet of things (IoT) is driving advances in technology and functionality in many industries, and the remote monitoring industry is no exception. New market data from IHS estimates the global remote monitoring market was worth $24.7 billion in 2015. Connected systems and services are expected to play a large role in the growth of this industry in...